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J. E. w. FOGAL GATE Filed Dec. 15, 1925 I ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 23, 1926.

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GATE.

Application filed December 15, 192-5. Serial No. 75,651.

This invention relates to gates and has for its object the provision of a device forming an enclosure for an entrance which may be operated manually from opposite sides of the enclosure with a smallamount of force.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a gate pivotally mounted at one side of an entrance and weighted so that little. force is required to initiate the opening or closing movement of the same and in which the operating means for aiding in actuating the gate would also simultaneously release a locking bolt for the gate.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a simple, efficient, reliable and easily constructed device operating as a closure for an entrance and which may be disassembled and compactly bundled for shipment.

This invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, in View or" the acconr panying drawings forming a part of the specification; nevertheless it is to be under stood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure, being susceptible of such changes and modifications which shall define no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claim. xv

In the drawings: I

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a gate constructed in accordance with the principles of my invention and shown in operative position at an entrance.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary vertical section showing an element of the operating means.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the latching means for the gate.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1O designates generally a gate formed in any well known manner, which has horizontal bars 11 and transverse vertical brace bars 12 and 13. The bars 13 are located at the free end of the gate and are curved as shown at 14 in order to permit ready oscillation of the gate with out any interference from the post 15 located at one end of a fence 16.

At opposite sides of the other end of the gate 10 are mounted a pair of spaced posts 17 and 18. In spaced relation with each of the posts 17 or 18 is a secondpost 19 having a bifurcated upper end 20 in which is mounted a pulley 21. A pin 22 located above the pulley 21 cooperates with the pulley to prevent the displacement of a cable 23 which has at its free enda ring 24 and its other end is connected to an oscillating lever 25 pivoted at '26 011 the face of reinforcing plates 27 on the gate 10.

It will be noted that the cable 23 is employed at one .side of the gate while a cable 23 is employed at the opposite side of the gate for a purpose which will be presently explained. Each of these cables are passed around a pulley 28 supported on a post 17 or 18 and the posts 19 are braced by means of a horizontal bar 29 connected between the post and the inner posts 17 or 18. One end of the fence 30 is connected to the post 18.

A rather stout post 31 is mounted in a concrete base 32 at the rear of the posts 17 and 18 and is provided with a ournal plate 33 having bearings 34 and 35 in which is mounted an axle 36. This axle is rigid with a hub 37 which is secured in any approved manner to the .side plates 27 at the inner end of the gate. It will be noted that concrete sectors 38 are bolted to the inner free end 39 of the gate in such a manner that the weight of these sectors will be approximately suflicient to overbalance the weight of the gate 10 so that when the bolt 40 is released from a keeper in the post 15 by actuation of either of the cables 23 or 23 the gate will is mounted in a casing 44: secured to a pair of bars 11 of the gate. A spring 46 is engage-d by a lug 40 of the bolt and maintains the free end of the bolt in projected relation so that it will be received by the keeper on the post 15 when the gate is in lowered position.

It will be seen by this construction that a very simple and inexpensive gate is protend to rise at its free end and be moved I duced which may be readily operated through either of the cables 23 or 23 by exerting a slight pull on the cable for releasing the bolt 4-0 from the keeper in the post 15 whence the gate will rise. Due to the fact that the wei 'hts 38 are slightly greater than the weight of the gate 10 only a small amount of pull is required 011 either of the cables for causing the gate to return to its normal closed position. The position of the spaced posts 17 and 18 is such that when a sufficient pull is exerted on the cables which will tend to cause the gate to return to its downward position.

A form is supplied with each gate for making the sectors 38 of concrete so that the sectors may be manufactured at the point where the gate is erected and thus nected with an end of each lever, a link connected with the other end of each lever, a spring; pressed bolt pivotally mounted at one end of the gate, said link being conneeted with the spring pressed bolt.

JOHN E. w. FOGAL. 

